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Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.BONUS :• Sailing Alone Around the World Audiobook.• Biography of Joshua Slocum.

On April 24, 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum set out on a three-year journey to circumnavigate the world alone by boat. Crossing the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in his sloop, the Spray, Slocum visited South Africa, South America, and Australia before returning home as the first man to successfully sail around the world solo. Slocum’s memoir tells of pirate attacks, gale-force winds, strange hallucinations and the ever-present threat of shipwreck. Restless and land-weary, Slocum set sail again in 1909 and was never heard from. He was declared legally dead in 1924.Sailing Alone Around the World was originally published as installments from Slocum’s journal. The original work is generously illustrated and remains one of the greatest narratives of seafaring adventure ever written.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Joshua Slocum spent a lifetime adrift. He fled from his Nova Scotia home at 14 years old, and for the following 35 years he cruised the world holding each shipboard rank. At the point when a ship under his summon was destroyed on the shoreline of Brazil in 1887, it appeared that his oceanic profession had finished in disrespect. Not one for resigning to hearty fields, Slocum modified a hundred-year old sloop and set off from Boston in 1895 on the primary independent circumnavigation of the globe. For over three years, Slocum fought stormy oceans, assaults from thieves and privateers, and obviously, dejection. He crossed the Atlantic no less than three times, invested weeks whipping against the components around Cape Horn, and discovered sanctuary in various colorful harbors. [i]Sailing Alone around the World[/i] is the exceptional story of small time's strength and cleverness, and has a persisting and widespread interest as a historic point of world enterprise. Stanfords Travel Classics include a portion of the finest recorded travel writing in the English dialect, with writers hailing from the two sides of the Atlantic. Each title has been rest in a contemporary typeface and has been printed to a fantastic generation detail, to make an arrangement that each admirer of fine travel writing will need to gather and keep.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers. Captain Slocum was a highly experienced navigator and ship owner. He rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts over 13 months between early 1893 and 1894. Between 24 April 1895 and 27 June 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the Atlantic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time) to return to Massachusetts after a journey of 46,000 miles.